Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Mental Health DailyHogg Foundation for Mental Health

Chief Art Acevedo said his department's success limiting gun violence was due to the work of its mental health unit, which partners with outside organizations to monitor and help individuals who may be a danger to themselves or others.

A movement known as effective altruism (E.A.) seeks to make us better do-gooders. Often called “generosity for nerds,” effective altruism uses data science to calculate how people can ensure that each dollar they give has the greatest impact on the lives of those in need.

According to the National Eating Disorders Association, eating disorders affect up to 30 million people in the U.S. — two-thirds of them women. While there is more recognition that eating disorders affect people of all races and ethnicities, Reyes-Rodríguez says racially and ethnically diverse communities don't have equal access to treatments.

Three years after the Sandy Hook mass shooting prompted public demands for mental health care reform, an increasing number of states have cut funding for mental health services, according to a report released Tuesday by a mental health advocacy group.

Adapting the same approach that has worked well in the Family Drug Court, the county will implement an early intervention program in the Children’s Court to provide counseling and other services to those with children 3 and younger.

America is in the midst of a mental health crisis and what it will take to turn things around is a national consensus recognizing the immensity of the problem and the “willingness of heart” to address it. That was the message delivered by award-winning journalist and former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather at the Sarasota Opera House Saturday afternoon.

New methods of paying for health care, designed to improve care while controlling costs, have failed to help a big segment of the population — those grappling with mental illness — a Harvard Medical School study says.

Israeli Arabs do not receive the same mental health and psychological services available to other citizens, MK Eli Alalouf, chairman of the Knesset Labor, Social Welfare and Health Committee said on Monday.

Now we know, and have proven, that everything we do alters our brain not only on the molecular and cellular level, but also leads to the rewiring of brain and sometimes significant morphological changes inside the organ.

Mounting evidence indicates that disturbances in the brain's glutamate pathway contribute to symptoms of schizophrenia. Thus, the glutamate pathway has become the target of a number of new drug therapies. Findings suggest that at least one of these drugs may be an effective treatment for individuals in the early course of the illness.

I decided to make my life a little easier so I typed up a little “cheat sheet” with descriptions of some of the most prevalent mental illnesses I come across, particularly when dealing with substance abusers.

Margaret P. Moss, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, is a nurse, a doctor, an attorney and a writer who has combined her skills to compile the first nursing textbook on American Indian health.